Mesa doubles shine
Costa Mesa High swept all nine doubles sets and the Mustangs remained
unbeaten following a 13-5 Golden West League boys tennis victory over
Santa Ana Thursday.
Brian Nguyen and partner John Dang, along with the duos of Ted Lee
and Shea Huffman and Garrett Sneen and Ken Shida, combined for the
nine wins while Huy Le claimed two of three singles sets for Mesa
(3-0, 2-0 in league).
Daniel Gomez and Jonathan Courtney also earned singles victory for
the Mustangs.
Golden West League
Costa Mesa 13,
Santa Ana 5
Singles -- Le (CM) lost to Rodriguez, 2-6, def. Ramirez, 6-2, def.
Villapando, 6-0; (sub) Gomez (CM) lost, 2-6, Bahana (CM) lost, 0-6,
Gomez won, 6-2; Courtney (CM) lost, 1-6, sub Tran (CM) lost, 3-6,
Courtney won, 6-3.
Doubles -- Nguyen-Dang (CM) def. Brito-Merida, 6-1, def.
Mendoza-Rivera, 6-2, def. French-Garcia, 6-0; Lee-Huffman (CM) won,
6-0, 6-1, 6-3; Sneen-Shida (CM) won, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4.
Rabinovich shoots par
* GOLF: Zach Rabinovich shot even-par 36 to earn medalist honors
and lead the visiting Corona del Mar High boys golf team to a 194-210
victory over Mission Viejo in nonleague play Thursday at Mission
Viejo Country Club.
Rabinovich made one birdie and one bogey, and out-dueled the
Diablos’ Cameron Tringale, who received a golf scholarship at Georgia
Tech. Tringale shot 37.
Matt Story shot 38 for the Sea Kings (3-2), while Ben Tilsen David
Su and Cody Stuart all shot 40.
Sailors win fifth straight
* SURFING: The Newport Harbor High surf team claimed six of seven
heats en route to a 93-50 victory over Calvary Chapel -- the team’s
fifth straight win -- at 56th Street in Newport Beach Tuesday.
The Sailors (6-4) captured 17 of the 21 top three positions,
including five first-, six second- and six third-place finishes.
Newport’s boys short board team swept the top three positions in
three of the four heats while capturing first and third in the fourth
heat. Daniel Shea, the South Coast League individual champion, and
Christian Morabito each tallied a high wave score of 4.9 to place
first in their respective heats.
Shea placed first for the seventh time this year while Morabito
topped his heat a fourth time. Brett Catron and Brian Doheny each
took first, too.
Taylor Lobdell, Nathan Petty and Evan Hochwald all placed second
while Artemus Gregurak, Luke Sequeira, Reagan Riley and J.J. Frei all
finished third.
Robert Guy took second while Bennet Schlesinger placed third for
Newport’s victorious boys long board team, which earned a 12-9
victory.
Lisa Turk finished first a sixth time this season in leading the
Sailor girls long board team to victory. Teammate Devon Falasco
placed third.
Turk and Falasco placed second and third, respectively, for the
losing girls short board team.
The Sailors face Edison at 6:15 a.m. Thursday at the Santa Ana
river jetty.
OCC women perfect
* TENNIS: The Orange Coast College women’s tennis team remains
undefeated overall and in the Orange Empire Conference after an 8-1
victory over visiting Riverside on Thursday.
OCC’s Michelle Esquivel and Jessica Rice swept their opponents in
each of their singles sets, 6-0, 6-0, and in their doubles set, 8-0.
In doubles, Rachael Sessum and Emily Paulson, along with Julie
Haley and Ai Takamori won, 8-3, to give OCC an early 3-0 advantage.
The Pirates (8-0, 5-0 in OEC), won the first five singles sets,
but sophomore Rachael Sessum lost in the sixth set, 1-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Estancia whips Orange
* TRACK AND FIELD: Both the boys and girls track and field teams
of Estancia High held their ground against visiting Orange in a
Golden West League opener Thursday. The boys won, 95-30, and the
girls won, 85-30.
Senior Bryce McKendry led the boys charge for the Eagles (1-0),
placing first in the high jump (5-4), long jump (21-1) and triple
jump (40-4 1/4 ), while also placing second in the 110-meter high
hurdles (18.8). Junior Ernie Castenada won both the 1,600 (4:42.5)
and the 3,200 (10:30.3) and sophomore Ryan Whites won the 110 high
hurdles (17.5) and the 300 hurdles (46.58).
Sophomore Emily Carr won the 100 (14.1), 200 (29.6) and long jump
(17-4) for the girls (1-0), while sophomore Jai Hellmich won both the
high jump (4-6) and triple jump (31-3).
* For complete results, see track and field
Coast wins again
* TENNIS: Spencer Solomon, Jared Haley, Hiroshi Muto and Victor
Jacobs all won their singles sets to help the visiting Orange Coast
College men’s tennis team to its fourth straight win following a 6-3
Orange Empire Conference triumph over Riverside Thursday.
Jacobs, trailing a set and down, 5-2, in the second, claimed the
next 11 games to defeat Alex Talbi. Jacobs, along with Solomon and
Muto, all needed three sets to secure wins. OCC (7-1, 5-1 in the OEC)
took a 4-2 lead after singles play.
Solomon and Haley, along with Scott Fielder and Muto, earned 8-3
and 8-1 doubles victories, respectively.
Eagles blank Aztecs
* SOFTBALL: The Estancia softball team defeated host La Quinta in
a 14-0 nonleague victory.
The Eagles scored one run in the third inning, and three in the
fifth, but the domination was in the sixth inning when Estanica
scored nine runs off 10 hits.
The Eagles were helped out by sophomore pitcher Hilary Ockey who
had three strikeouts and pitched a no-hitter.
On Saturday the Eagles will face Saddleback in the Mesa
tournament.
Nonleague
Estancia 14,
La Quinta 0
Score by Innings
*--*
Estancia 0 0 1 0 3 9 1 - 14 19 2
Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 5
*--*
Ockey and K. Brown; Ho, Mattinson (6) and Porras. W -- Ockey. L --
Ho.
Ockey and K. Brown; Ho, Mattinson (6) and Porras. W -- Ockey,
1-0. L -- Ho, 0-1. 2B -- You (Est).
OCC defeats Gauchos
* BASEBALL: The Orange Coast College baseball team defeated
Saddleback, 8-7, on Thursday in an Orange Empire Conference game.
The Pirates (9-7, 3-1 in OEC) attacked early on and ended the
third inning with a 6-2 lead.
In the fifth inning, OCC’s catcher Josh Banda hit a solo homerun
to put the Pirates up, 7-2. The Gauchos, (9-2, 1-2) came back in the
sixth inning to score 4 runs.
In the seventh, Saddleback’s Montana Dye hit a homerun to bring
them within one, but OCC walked away with the win after neither team
scored in the eighth or ninth inning.
Orange Empire Conference
Orange Coast College 8,
Saddleback 7
Score by Innings
*--*
Saddleback 0 0 2 0 0 4 1 0 0 - 7 9 2
Coast 0 1 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 - 8 8 0
*--*
Kucera, Goldburg (5), Stires (7) and Hamon, Capon (7) ; Rizor,
Gagne (6), Brown (6), Gattis (7), Beck (9) and Banda. W -- Rizor,
3-1. L -- Kucera. Sv -- Beck. 2B -- Dye(S), Morrow (S), Rodriguez
(S), Gattis (O), Snyder (O), Slater(O). HR -- Banda (O), Dye(S).
CdM bests Rancho
* SOFTBALL: The Corona del Mar High softball team used a three-run
third inning to best visiting Rancho Alamitos, 5-3, in a nonleague
game Thursday.
CdM (2-2) strung together three hits together in the fifth inning
and Alamitos (0-3) walked two and had two errors to give up the five
runs.
Sophomore Michelle Tolfa pitched the full seven innings for the
Sea Kings, striking out nine batters while allowing five hits and
four walks. From the plate, Tolfa was 1 for 3 with a double, an RBI
and a run scored.
CdM opens play in the Downey tournament at 3 p.m. Saturday at
South Gate Park.
Nonleague
Corona del Mar 5,
Rancho Alamitos 3
Score by Innings
*--*
Alamitos 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 - 3 5 3 Corona del Mar 0 0 5 0 0 0 x - 5 4 4
*--*
Gutierrez, Martinez (6) and Rayle; Tolfa and Redelsheiner. W --
Tolfa, 2-2. L -- Gutierrez. 2B -- Tolfa (CdM), Masanai (RA). HR --
Masanai (RA).
Waves roll through UCI
* VOLLEYBALL: Host Pepperdine University tallied an 18-2 advantage
in blocks and sent visiting UC Irvine to its seventh straight loss
with a 30-28, 30-27, 30-25 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation victory
Thursday.
Tom Hulse and Jonathan Winder each had four block assists, part of
Pepperdine’s 14 for the match. UCI (6-15, 4-10 in the MPSF) had two.
Matt Webber led three Anteaters in kills with 14 followed by
Jayson Jablonsky and Aaron Harrell, who each added 10.
Sean Rooney slammed a match-high 19 kills for the second-ranked
Waves (12-1, 12-1), who hit at a .398 clip (55 of 113).
Dolphins edge Sailors
* GOLF: Despite a coach satisfied with his team’s finish, the
Newport Harbor boys golf team lost, 187-199, in a nonleague match
against Dana Hills on Wednesday at El Niguel Country Club.
Davis Pemstein of Newport (2-2) was a co-medalist at 36, while
Chris Willard (38), Andrew Skjonsby (39), Justin Moorhead (40),
Brandon Sowers (46) and Rhett Palmer (49) finished for Newport
Harbor.
The Sailors will face Foothill at Tustin Ranch on Monday.
Newport topped
* TENNIS: Playing without its regular No. 2 singles player Jake
Fleming, who is out with a muscle strain, the Newport Harbor High
boys tennis team lost to visiting Fountain Valley, 13-5, in a
nonleague meeting Thursday.
No. 1 singles player Robert Khoury swept his sets for Newport
(1-2), 6-1, 6-1, 6-0, while Taylor Friend won his last set, 6-4,
filling in for Fleming.
Fountain Valley (3-1) swept all doubles matches against the
Sailors, who visit Dana Hills at 3 p.m. Monday.
Nonleague
Fountain Valley 13,
Newport Harbor 5
Singles -- Khoury def. Lau, 6-1, def. Dam, 6-1, def. Arulmoli,
6-0. Friend (NH) lost, 6-2, 6-0, won, 6-4. Casserly (NH), lost, 6-1,
6-1, 7-6.
Doubles -- Cefalia-Haskall lost to Lam-Dinh, 6-1, lost to
Case-Drilling, 6-2, lost to Makino-Nguyen, 7-6. Espley-Jones-Chase
(NH) lost, 7-5, 6-2, 7-5. Hutchinson-MacLaren (NH), lost, 7-5, 6-3,
6-3.
Sage tops Irvine
* GOLF: The visiting Sage Hill School boys golf team topped
Irvine, 210-217, in a nonleague matchup Thursday at Oak Creek Golf
Club.
Junior Josh Chen shot 39 to lead the Lightning (3-1), while Ryan
Babbush (39), Geoffrey Grant (41), Will Rigby (45) and John Neff (46)
also scored for Sage.
Irvine dropped to 1-3. The Lightning host Mater Dei at 3:15 p.m.
Tuesday at Strawberry Farms Golf Club.
Lions victorious
* TENNIS: The fourth-ranked Vanguard men’s tennis team, according
to Thursday’s release of the NAIA Men’s Top 25 rankings, defeated
Hope International, 9-0, on Thursday.
Vanguard’s (6-1, 4-1 in GSAC) Dieter Weislmaier and Christoph
Schramm won in the number three doubles, 8-0.
Vanguard’s Cyril Conry lost only one game in two sets (6-1, 6-0)
at number three.
In the number four and five singles, Andreas Reckziegel and
Schramm shut out their opponents, 6-0, 6-0, giving the Lions an 8-0
lead.
Calle Holmgren finished the match off in the number six singles by
defeating Trevor Welday, 6-0, 6-2.
The Lions 9-0 victory marks Vanguard’s fourth straight shutout
this season.
On Tuesday the Lions will host Lewis-Clark of Idaho.
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